Emily Chappell

Writer

Emily Chappell is education reporter for the Carroll County Times. She came to the Times in June 2016 after a year working on the Eastern Shore. She is originally from northeastern Pennsylvania, and graduated from Penn State in May 2015.

Recent Articles

Carroll County Public Schools is discussing possible concepts that could bring countywide redistricting, school closures and different grade configurations in the next two to four years. The Board of Education made changes to its Capital Improvement Plan request at its October school board meeting...

When Karen Buschman’s father was serving in World War II, his plane got hit. “They were shot down over Germany in their second mission,” said Buschman, of Eldersburg. Her father, John Hardesty, who was in his early 20s, had to parachute out to survive. He was captured and spent 10 months in a prisoner...

Westminster High School junior Lauren Jenne is busy. She plays lacrosse and field hockey, she’s involved in theater, she’s in a band and plays five instruments. “Although it’s a lot of work, it’s not bad work, so I enjoy doing it,” she said. But when she’s not busy doing extracurricular activities...

Over a nearly four-hour meeting Wednesday, the Carroll County Public Schools Board of Education came to a consensus to send a letter agreeing to move to the former North Carroll High School after months of back-and-forth with county commissioners. The board also voted to amend the Capital Improvement...

Commissioner Richard Weaver, R-District 2, was applauded Tuesday night by members of the Hampstead community and the town’s mayor and council regarding future plans for the former North Carroll High School, with Mayor Christopher Nevin saying Weaver was “making lemonade out of some really sour...

The Sheriff’s Office is investigating how a Carroll County Detention Center inmate died Tuesday in the work release unit. Brian Christopher Robinson, 35, of Baltimore, was found unresponsive and pronounced dead Tuesday, Oct. 10, before his body was taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in...

A Sykesville man was arrested and charged in relation to an indecent exposure incident Oct. 6. James Aaron Cassell, 42, was charged with indecent exposure, disturbing the peace, trespassing and disorderly conduct. At about 10:46 p.m. Oct. 6, officers with the Westminster Police Department responded...

In 2014, Frank San Fellipo lost his wife to ovarian cancer. She was diagnosed in 2007 and referred to Carroll Hospital's old cancer center, where, San Fellipo said, she received incredible care. “The staff, the nurses, the doctors were again, very good, compassionate [and] knowledgeable,” he said....